Forge Options

Forge provides several options regarding rendering and saving in the Options menu.

Application Settings

User Interface

• Night Time

  Switch between light and dark color theme for the Forge user interface.

Night Time Off	Night Time On

• Force garbage collection on unload

  When switched on this option will try to free up system memory when you close a document.

• Disable hardware rendering

  If you encounter rendering issues with the Forge user interface then those are most likely caused by the video driver. In that case you can turn off hardware rendering.

• Show file preview tab

  Forge has three options that allow you to specify how the file serialization preview of a resource is presented:

  • XML + JSON

  • Same as source

  • None

• Show XML/JSON node expand button

  When turned on allows you to collapse and expand nodes in the XML and JSON viewer.

Show XML/JSON node expand button Off	Show XML/JSON node expand button On

• Show common resource elements (id, meta, …)

  Shows or hides common resource elements in the Element Tree.

Show common resource elements Off	Show common resource elements On

• Show child elements when sliced

  This option allows you to see the constraints that can be put on the sliced element. These constraints are implemented on all the slices. This is summarized in the “All slice” once rendered on Simplifier.

Show child elements when sliced Off	Show child elements when sliced On

• Expand all constrained elements on load

  This option will expand constrained elements in the Element Tree when a resource is loaded.

Expand constrained elements Off	Expand constrained elements On

• Element Tree modified style

  Selects how modified elements in the Element Tree are displayed.

Unmodified elements are displayed dimmed	Modified elements are indicated with a pen

Persistence

• Auto update publication data

  When switched on this option will update the Date element of a conformance resource to the current date and time when uploading a resource to Simplifier.

• Save snapshot component

  This option allows you to generate and include the snapshot component of a structure definition when saving a file to disk.

• Save with UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM)

  The UTF-8 BOM is a sequence of bytes at the start of a text file (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF) that allows the reader to more reliably guess a file as being encoded in UTF-8.

• Xml declaration

  Xml documents can contain an Xml declaration that if present, must be the first construct in the document and it looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>. Forge has three options that allow you to specify when Xml declarations are saved to a resource:

  • Same as source

  • Include

  • Omit

  Note that when saving resources that are newly created, duplicated or upgraded, the Xml declaration is included when the option is set to Same as source or Include and omitted when set to Omit.

• Xml indent size

  The indent size to use when saving Xml files.

• Json indent size

  The indent size to use when saving Json files.

FHIR

• Validate FHIRPath expressions

  All FHIRPath expressions in your resource are validated when this option is checked.

• Initialize global mappings from base profile

  When creating a new profile this option will copy all the mappings from the base profile to the new profile.

• Discard DomainResource.text values

  When this option is checked the text element of a DomainResource is cleared when it is opened. In effect this will clear the Narrative of your resource.

Folders

• Parent folder FHIR projects

  The default parent folder for your FHIR projects.